Archive - May 7, 2009
By ANDY KIRKALDY
VERGENNES — The owners of Vergennes grocery the Fat Hen, which offered locally grown and organic food, closed its doors on April 12. But an effort to re-create the business as a co-op could soon revive it as a downtown shopping option.
By KATHRYN FLAGG
BRISTOL — According to some number-crunching students at Mt. Abraham Union High School, the count of plastic bags that Vermonters use each year is staggeringly high — somewhere in the neighborhood of roughly 180 million bags, in fact.
“And that’s a conservative estimate,” said Mt. Abe physics teacher Tom Tailer.
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — Two separate groups sparring over the future of Salisbury’s Shard Villa elder care home arrived at a court settlement on Monday that calls for the current board of directors to resign and for the installation of a new slate of leaders that will try to navigate the historic institution through some very choppy financial waters.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
BRISTOL — The Mount Abraham Union High School softball team rode hot bats to a 13-8 win over visiting South Burlington on Tuesday, improving to 4-1 by getting hits from every member of the lineup.
By Karl Lindholm
I saw The Bird before he was The Bird.
Here’s the story:
Many years ago (early 1970s), my good friend Jim was the basketball coach at Auburn High outside Worcester, Mass. Home in New England for a visit, I stopped to visit Jim and Candy on the night of the big hoop tilt between Auburn and Algonquin Regional High.
